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Population viability analysis and potential of its application to Danube sturgeons
- Source :
- Archives of Biological Sciences, Vol 61, Iss 1, Pp 123-128 (2009)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- National Library of Serbia, 2009.
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Abstract
- Sturgeon species in the Danube River basin have experienced severe decline. Besides overexploitation, habitat loss, and pollution, they are further endangered by lack of efficient policy and management, as well as by serious lack of knowledge about their life history. Although population viability analysis (PVA) could represent an extremely valuable tool to cope with these problems, it has not so far been applied to Danube populations. This paper represents an assess?ment of different PVA methods and models developed for sturgeon species. It analyzes their results, main advantages, drawbacks, and problems, and discusses the possibility of applying PVA to sturgeon populations in the Danube River basin.
- Subjects :
- life history
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Ecology
Huso
Endangered species
Drainage basin
extinction risk
biology.organism_classification
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Fishery
Overexploitation
Habitat destruction
Population viability analysis
Sturgeon
lcsh:Biology (General)
PVA
Acipenser
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18214339 and 03544664
- Volume :
- 61
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Biological Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....11def11157080a84b906b1506c5598b6